Performance
Buffett’s Berkshire Likely Missing Target for First Time in Four Decades
Warren Buffett probably missed his target for the first time in 44 years. Berkshire Hathaway Inc., his $292 billion company, is poised to report that it failed to increase net worth more rapidly than ...
AmTrust Announces First Stock Repurchase Plan Since 2007
AmTrust Financial Services Inc. gained in New York trading Thursday after the insurer's board approved the repurchase of as much as $150 million in shares following a stock slump last month. The ...
Fastest Growing E&S Carriers in Top 30 Revealed: Fitch Report
In a year-end report on the U.S. excess and surplus lines market, data compiled by Fitch Ratings revealed that the top growing E&S writers in recent years were not necessarily the biggest. The ...
Chart-Topping Carrier Management Charts: Top D&O Insurers, Analytics Analysis
In addition to feature articles, news articles, videos and podcasts, Carrier Management published dozens of charts in 2013, the most popular of which featured rankings of insurers. As the year comes ...
Carrier Management’s Top 5 Podcasts of 2013
Audio summaries of the news were available to Carrier Management readers in two forms this year. Some of our popular feature articles, such as "Reinsurers Target Regional Carriers as Alternative ...
Top 10 Carrier Management News Reports: Stressed Employees, Tower Woes, Berkshire’s New Venture
Stressed and toxic employees captured the attention of Carrier Management's readers in 2013, with news articles about those two types of workers showing up in the top 10 news reports of the year on ...
Capacity Keeping E&S Market Competitive; Berkshire Impact Yet to Materialize: Fitch
Growing capacity will limit rate hikes and promote persistent competition in the excess and surplus lines market, Fitch Ratings said in a report earlier this week. The U.S. E&S market, which ...
Premium Growth Continues for 14th Straight Quarter, WC to Lead in 2014
Although the growth in industry total net property/casualty insurance premiums slowed in the third-quarter, an unbroken string of quarterly hikes is longer than a prior period of back-to-back ...